Vulture

I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillsideAbove the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling high up in heaven,And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit narrowing, I understood thenThat I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight- feathersWhistle above me and make their circle and come nearer.I could see the naked red head between the great wingsBear downward staring. I said, 'My dear bird, we are wasting time here.These old bones will still work; ...

The Excesses Of God

Is it not by his high superfluousness we knowOur God? For to be equal a needIs natural, animal, mineral: but to flingRainbows over the rainAnd beauty above the moon, and secret rainbowsOn the domes of deep sea-shells,And make the necessary embrace of breedingBeautiful also as fire,Not even the weeds to multiply without blossom